When the sunlight does not produce a shadow
I long for a calm and freshening luster mellow
Since sleeplessness has turned into my nemesis
Resurge back after a pause and start as Genesis
He fails to comply with what he says he'll do
I wish he would return to regain my sanity too
Wild weeds are causing havoc on vital blooms
While I desire to sink into a pit of bliss loom
My limbs don't feel as if they're on solid ground
My walls are woven for a calm night's sound.
Written: June 04, 2023
Categories:
shadowless, animal, appreciation, sun,
Form: Couplet
This high, half-hidden, churchyard
Where coldness and rain find a home
And the nightfall is welcomed at twilight's end.
The lament of the deafened, defining the dusk,
And complecting its blanket, a chilled shielding shroud ~
A poet lies sleeping alone in her cot.
But verses are silently wrested away
Brilliantly noiseless not rhyming nor free:
And how the wind whistles here all about.
Then, strangely, disturbing the shadowless eve
A voice, a beseeching, may softly be heard.
O' Sylvia, Sylvia, why for art thou here?
Categories:
shadowless, dedication, grave, memorial, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Neither Punxsutawney Phil today
Nor Staten Island Chuck
Saw their shadows when emerging,
Which to many is good luck.
It predicts a shorter winter
And an entryway to spring,
Though there's skepticism surely
When a groundhog is the king.
Still, we hark to their predictions,
Causing many to rejoice.
Yet, the almanac, to me, would be
The harbinger of choice.
Categories:
shadowless, future,
Form: Rhyme
Lead me not to a shadowless march
Whence love and lust seek to merge
Two steps behind, a step afar
Things of the heart we tend to drag.
Lead me not to a shadowless march
A strange road; a slouchy soul
Two to tow with dragging toes
Too far behind a glimpse of hope.
Lead me not to a shadowless march
Crossbite or snare, the road impels
Thither or not, a soul despairs
Stalled beyond, a tale to tell.
Lead me not to a shadowless march
Sweat and blood, I've come this far
The king is tipped, much less to spar
A tale at hand, I'll live to bear.
Categories:
shadowless, change, confusion, depression, destiny,
Form: ABC
Take some of my memories,
I have too many.
Even my best pants have at least 3 coffee stains.
Forgetting my wife's phone number...
Leaving my dreams hanging from trees...
Bothered by time...
Harassed by leftover hungers,
I walk over the wet gold of leaves,
My trudge oblique and undefinable.
Rustling into lunch hours,
I look into windows and
Swirl through clouds,
Have the fun my shadow would have,
If it hadn't left me back in the islands.
It's okay I've moved on. Though barely.
Left alone in all this light...
Categories:
shadowless, nature,
Form: Free verse
One's Shadowless Moment
That which we embrace
That which we shun
That which we serve
Assimilation
Man's strange bedfellow
Remaining often long in the wings
Allowing shadow-light to become constant
Inviting ghost-like impressions
Enjoin one's timeless opacity of reason
Edification reveals
Experience rejecting idleness
Determined to share
Clover-rich bounty
Free of any fear
Sagacity being void of threat
As predators ignorant
Discover wisdom unconquerable
Sageness
Prepares its ungloved hands
To wave its alert
Ready to allow
Hidden time to luminesce
Discernment
Cautious to act
Knowing empirical reality
Must first pass through
Emotion's unreliability
Patiently pauses
White hot focus holds sway
Peripheral resistance wanes
Fractions
Equations
Formulae satiated
Acceptance invites convergence
Consciousness
Once in asylum
No longer struggling to be
Stands naked at last
Heart and mind fused
Light embodying darkness
Like the ever-forming oneness
Of sunrise comprising sunset
Birth ripening awaited death
Categories:
shadowless, death,
Form: Free verse
Eyes of the soul
truly never see light
for within their shadows
it is always as night-
Darkness refracted as the wind
oneness of self
that life doth send-
Deception of my heart
rage upon the sea
from life's alter
one can never part
but freedom within me-
Mine eyes have seen the rain
so that I no longer
carry these shackles
of endless pain-
Categories:
shadowless, introspection
Form: Free verse